Friends of the Earth Cardiff Cyfeillion y Ddaear Caerdydd

The old laundry building on the corner of Blenheim Road and Marlborough Road in Penylan could be knocked down to make way for a retirement home.

The Parliamentary All-Party Group on Small Shops investigated the future of small shops in the UK. Its report High Street Britain: 2015, released in January 2006, predicted a bleak future for independent shops. The report predicted that without protection:

Environmental design at the Centre for Alternative Technology. Photo: Lyndsay Maiden, Cardiff Friends of the Earth

Cities and their occupants consume huge amounts of:

• food
• energy
• building materials
• water

They produce large amounts of:

Local group members try to cross the River Ely

Better planning

People need a mix of housing, shops, offices, pubs, schools and places of worship within reasonable walking and cycling distance. They should be on public transport routes where this is not possible. For example: offices at public transport interchanges.

Placing low-density housing, shopping and office development on separate sites, then forcing people to drive between them doesn't work.

Cardiff Friends of the Earth want to stop more Tesco stores opening in Cardiff. The dominance of Tesco stores in this area harms local shops.

House of the Future at the Museum of Welsh Life. Photo: Chris Brown, Cardiff Friends of the Earth

Cardiff Friends of the Earth takes action to support appropriate development and oppose unsustainable planning applications. In making decisions on applications among other things we look at are:

Solar panel at the Centre for Alternative Technology. Photo: Lyndsay Maiden, Cardiff Friends of the Earth

Appropriate design of buildings and materials minimises their environmental impact

Green buildings:

Trees being felled in Bute Park to make way for an access road. Photo: Anne Greagsby, Bute Park Alliance.

This action is now closed - Thank you to everyone who took part

Countryside at Llanishen Reservoir. Photo: Llanishen RAG

A new Llanishen Country Park

We propose a country park stretching from Roath Park, past the Llandennis Oval and along the Nant Fawr. It would include both reservoirs and go along the Nant Ty Draw stream to the M4. It would then continue on to Caerphilly Mountain.